MasarUp, the Arab EntrepreneurshipCouncil, held its founding meeting at Google’s Haifa office on Sunday, to promote start-ups in the Arab sector with an ambitious goal of establishing 500 over the next five years. “We live next to the Start- Up Nation but are not part of it,” said Ala Sader, director of MasarUp and an accelerator manager at PresenTense, the initiator of the new council, which is composed of Arab businessmen.